Prof. Dr. Irene Dingel

Director, Department "Abendländische Religionsgeschichte"

Personal Details:

1974–1981: undergraduate studies in Protestant theology and Romance languages in Heidelberg and Paris. 1981–1982: lecturer and "Élève à titre étranger" at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Fontenay-aux-Roses. 1982–1993: academic assistant at the Theology Faculty of Heidelberg University. 1986: awarded PhD. 1993: Habilitation in Heidelberg. 1994–1998: Professorship of Historical Theology at the department of Protestant Theology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt-on-Main. Since 1998: Professorship of Church History and History of Dogma at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Since 2005: Director at bthe IEG.

Memberships (Selection):

Member of the Academic Council (2012-2017)

Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur , Mainz

Board member of the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte

Member of the University Council of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

Member of the Inter-Academy Management Committee of the Leibniz-Edition

Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Interdisziplinäres Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN) at the University of Osnabrück

Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Scio-Stiftung für Kirchen- und Kirchenzeitgeschichte of the EKHN (Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau)

Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Johannes a Lasco Library, Emden

Member of the Academic Advisory Commission of the project "Briefe und Akten zur Kirchenpolitik Friedrichs des Weisen und Johanns des Beständigen 1513–1542" of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig

Member of the Academic Advisory Commission of the project "Theologenbriefwechsel im Südwesten des Reichs in der Frühen Neuzeit (1550-1620)" of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften

Member of the Academic Advisory Commission of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities

Member of the UNESCO-Nomination Committee »Memory of the World«

Board member of the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft Hannover

Member of the Academic Advisory Commission of the Kalkhof-Rose-Stiftung of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz

Research focuses and current research projects:

Reformation and confessionalization; the early Enlightenment in its western European context

Directing the research project Controversia et confessio. Quellenedition zur Bekenntnisbildung und Konfessionalisierung in der Frühen Neuzeit, a long-term project of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz (www.controversia-et-confessio.de)

Directing the "Digital Primary Sources Edition of Early Modern Religious Settlements" project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (www.religionsfrieden.de)

Organization of the Spring Conferences on the Wittenberg Reformation with the Institut für Kirchengeschichte of the University of Leipzig and the Leucorea-Stiftung

Forschungsprojekte:

The long-term research and editorial project "Controversia et Confessio" has been based at and supported by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz since 2007. It is integrated into the research programme of the Leibniz Institute of European History and also involves the cooperation of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.

The edition provides for the first time the textual basis for comparative research on Early Modern religious peace-making in Europe. It includes detailed introductions and commentaries and covers the period from 1485 (Peace of Kuttenberg) to 1788 (so-called Woellner Edict of Religion).

The research training group examines reactions in the process of European unification, as well as the repercussions and activities that the process gave rise to in the area of the churches. The project also focuses on the efforts of the churches to insert religious concepts of values into the political processes.

The long-term research and editorial project "Controversia et Confessio" has been based at and supported by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz since 2007. It is integrated into the research programme of the Leibniz Institute of European History and also involves the cooperation of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.